8 tips to be beneficial(there) to park in Amsterdam

Posted on 21-06-2016 at 14:20 by perry_snijders – 96 Comments”

The robber barons of the municipality of Amsterdam pick you with love bald, if you car wants to park, so we looked out how to be cheaper.

If we have something about Amsterdam write, it takes not long for the word parking in the comments pops up. Usually in the same sentence, words like theft, thieves, or scam. Such as when we on the AutoRAI wrote: ‘to Organize a car show and ask you more to car parking than the price of admission,’ responds @vinz667. And also perhaps somewhat rightly, if you read what The local newspaper recently wrote: “the Municipality earns millions more in parking fees’. Last year it was reported that the parking fees in 2014 for a record amount had provided, but in 2015, it was Amsterdam that made it. Still cars brought the city but prefer to 190,3 million euros. The article reports a spokeswoman from the municipality that does not pay is a bad idea: “About all the parking spaces are now monitored at a day. Where you previously be a gamble and could car, is that is not the case now.’ The alternatives are listed below.

1. Go live there
If you live in Amsterdam, you can get a parking permit requests. The prices therefore vary per district, because, of course, is the center more expensive than for example South-east, but in any case, a parking permit is always cheaper than the parking. As you pay at a parking meter in the centre € 5 per hour, but with a bewonersvergunning your car a half a year leave for € 267,50. Still a solid amount, but for that € 267,50 can you get a parking your car less than a week to park; if you see him there on the Monday morning drop, you can get him until Thursday afternoon. This is a bewonersvergunning almost 50 times cheaper than the parking!

2. Beginning a company
Not only as a resident of Amsterdam you can get a parking permit requests, also, as a company, you can do that. There is a snag: the business licenses are more expensive than resident permits. So, the cost of the licence for the centre (£428, while you, as an inhabitant € 267,50 pay. This is a business license, incidentally, is still about 30 times cheaper than the parking.

3. Find a free place (1)
Amsterdam has an extensive tram and underground network. So you can also just free parking, at least if you’re prepared you in the public transport deposit. In the largest part of Nieuw-West car parking free, in the greatest part of the North also.

4. Looking for an economical place
Here and there in the city you can get discount parking. First of all, that the well-known P+R parking in Amsterdam on several places: in Zeeburg, Bos en Lommer and Sloterdijk, but also in the Arena, RAI congress centre and the Olympic Stadium.
But it can be cheaper. For example, in Eastern the 10-cent-tariefgebieden. Approximately on the spot where once the Ajax stadium stood, you can now have up to four hours of parking for a duppie per hour. In the same district you can on the Wenckebachweg to a maximum of three hours parking for 10 cents per hour. Also in the West, you will find a number of 10-centzones. In the South however, you will find most of the 10-centzones.

5. Looking for a cheap garage
At the parking lot, next to The Bijenkorf, you pay 2 euro per 20 minutes, and duration is always rounded up to a multiple of 20 minutes. For 21 minutes you pay 4 euro. That should be cheaper, right? To start with, you would get a subscription in the same garage. That will cost you € overdue 1,106,78 per month. Still a blow money, but if you car then the whole month shows state that will cost you less than € 1.50 per hour — if you have at least a month with 31 days out.

Of course it can also be cheaper. Much cheaper even. The less popular parking garages charge rates that are much friendlier. At Flowparking (across from the RAI), you pay the first hour is 1 euro, the daily rate is 15 euro. If you want longer than a day’s parking? Then you lose your parking ticket simply, because without a parking ticket, you pay 25 euro.

Closer to the centre you can park without having a second mortgage will have to close. At P1 Parking Amsterdam Centre for example; if you spend a few days in advance to reserve, you pay 20 euro per day. Not bad when you consider that this car park just in front of the Central Station.
In Parking Centrum Oosterdok, you are still more economical. ‘A day in Amsterdam city Centre with the car is affordable, ” is the first sentence on the website of this garage. This garage is also located more or less next to the station, with the entrance at the back of the Public Library. In this garage, you pay 13 euros per day. The perfect garage when you go out in Amsterdam by the way; from 21.00 to 6.00, you pay only € 1 per hour.

You can also log on to Parkbee. That company makes car parks of companies accessible to the public. Not only in Amsterdam but also in Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Amersfoort, Groningen, the netherlands and a few other places. So you park on the Nieuwe Prinsengracht for € 2.75 per hour and a maximum of € 15 per day. In another garage, within walking distance of the Leidseplein, you’ll pay € 2 per hour and a maximum of € 10 per day. Checkout do you do with your phone, you have the Parkmobile App (powered by BMW).

6. Do not park
Parking in the city Centre of Amsterdam will cost you 5 euros per hour. The minimum wage for an 18-year-old is about 4 euros. So you can just as well be an 18-year-old for a few hours per week in service if you are a regular in the centre of Amsterdam. Then you about the same amount lost, only you get all the service you get for the fees in 020 actually would expect: at the end of the day it is your car washed and fuelled up, and with a bit of luck is at home, the grass is still mowed.

In the long term is the self-propelled car, a nice alternative to the 18-year-old; then you can leave your car in circles to drive over the canals while you’re going to Ajax look. Then your car clean and fuelled up at the end of the day, but the autonomous car doesn’t drink and will probably remain your daughter.

7. Get a motorcycle license
We love cars, and many bikers are mafklappers with too much hair, too many tattoos and too little ways. But there are exceptions. We walk perfectly well warm for a nice Ducati or a cool Bimota, to name a few. In Amsterdam stores only nowhere on to on a super fast race bike with lots of plastic and eye-catching colors, to drive away. Something where you have a little sitting up straight on the other hand, which you pointed the file merry go unnoticed and that you are smiling every file from the Leidseplein to Zandvoort passes? Let it come! A Ducati Monster 821, for example, or BMW’s new R nineT Scrambler. And what that town has to do? This quote we as the website of the municipality: ‘You can take your bike on the sidewalk parking. On the sidewalk, you need no parking fee to pay.’

8. Find a free spot (2)
We close with the tips for the real pigs. Free parking in the best spots without a euro to pay. Self-parked, I after my studies regularly at the University of Amsterdam. ‘Good afternoon, I have an appointment with…’ of course you can still try, you should than just the name of someone who is actually at that location, working from a study guide to picking. At the location where I parkeersucces polite, in the meantime, however, paid parking is introduced.
The free parking lot at a church right in the city centre (only for visitors) is now closed, unfortunately. But there are more of such places.

Just outside the city centre, but right next to a metro station, for example, is bedrijvengebouw Entrada. The parking lots to hear, of course, by the companies that are based there, but who checks that? Advantages: it is located directly at the motorway (exit S111), and right next to metro station Van der Madeweg, from there you are within a few minutes in the middle of the city centre. Disadvantages: you must be a metro. And it will actually not be allowed.

Finally, there are, of course, even the best of friends from Autoblog: the autoimporteurs. In Amsterdam you can find Ford, PSA (Peugeot, Citroën and DS) and Tesla. The last two are in the Southeast, but Ford is a lot closer to the inhabited world, on the edge of the River.
Just outside of Amsterdam in Lijnden, you can find FCA Netherlands, the importer of Alfa and Fiat. Park there and a taxi to Schiphol airport is cheaper than the parking lot of the airport. That applies all the way for Renault, on the Boeingavenue in Schiphol-Rijk. If it is full, would you still be able to try at Subaru in the city of Aalsmeer.

What is your favorite park in Amsterdam?

Imagecredits: @mevipp on autojunk.nl